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  • On the Word of a Jew

    Religion, Reliability, and the Dynamics of Trust

    by Nina Caputo, Mitchell B Hart ...
    Fourteen essays examining the dynamics of trust and mistrust in Jewish history from biblical times to today.What, if anything, does religion have to do with how reliable we perceive one another to be? When and how did religious difference matter in the past when it came to trusting the word of another? In today's world, we take for granted that being Jewish should not matter when it comes to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Taking Stock

    Cultures of Enumeration in Contemporary Jewish Life

    by Josh Friedman, Carol A. Kidron, Oren Stier, Yael Zerubavel, Mitchell B. Hart, Anat Leibler, Vanessa L. Ochs ...
    Series series The Modern Jewish Experience
    Taking Stock is a collection of lively, original essays that explore the cultures of enumeration that permeate contemporary and modern Jewish life. Speaking to the profound cultural investment in quantified forms of knowledge and representation—whether discussing the Holocaust or counting the numbers of Israeli and American Jews—these essays reveal a social life of Jewish numbers. As they trace ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 8, The Modern World, 1815–2000

    Edited by Mitchell B. Hart, Tony Michels ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Judaism
    The eighth and final volume of The Cambridge History of Judaism covers the period from roughly 1815–2000. Exploring the breadth and depth of Jewish societies and their manifold engagements with aspects of the modern world, it offers overviews of modern Jewish history, as well as more focused essays on political, social, economic, intellectual and cultural developments. The first part presents a ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Jews and Race

    Writings on Identity and Difference, 1880–1940

    Edited by Mitchell B. Hart ...
    Series series Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought
    Many people think of Jews as victims of a particular sort of racism, not as active participants in the development of racial thinking in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Yet many Jews did take up racial discourse and used it to analyze Judaism, Jewish history, and the contemporary condition of world Jewry. Race discourse generated by Jews was in part apologetic, a response to racial ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Striking Back

    The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response

    by Aaron J. Klein ...
    The first full account, based on access to key players who have never before spoken, of the Munich Massacre and the Israeli response–a lethal, top secret, thirty-year-long antiterrorism campaign to track down the killers.1972. The Munich Olympics. Palestinian members of the Black September group murder eleven Israeli athletes. Nine hundred million people watch the crisis unfold on television, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Chosen Few

    How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492

    by Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing in crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine in hundreds of places across the Old World, from Seville to Mangalore. What caused this radical change? The Chosen Few presents a new answer to this question ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Reluctant Jew

    by Michael Grossman ...
    Even if you are agnostic or hard-core atheist there is a dazzling, thought-expanding, bright side to religion you may have overlooked. Living a spiritual life in the tradition of the Jewish faith, does not mean mindless adherence to outdated dogma. Judaism, instead, can be a source of exhilarating wonder, an inspiration to justice, and an impetus to ever increasing knowledge. Nowadays, even many ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust

    Edited by Sonja M. Hedgepeth, Rochelle G. Saidel ...
    Series series HBI Series on Jewish Women
    Using testimonies, Nazi documents, memoirs, and artistic representations, this volume broadens and deepens comprehension of Jewish women’s experiences of rape and other forms of sexual violence during the Holocaust. The book goes beyond previous studies, and challenges claims that Jewish women were not sexually violated during the Holocaust. This anthology by an interdisciplinary and international ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Haskalah and Beyond

    The Reception of the Hebrew Enlightenment and the Emergence of Haskalah Judaism

    by Moshe Pelli ...
    Haskalah and Beyond deals with the Hebrew Haskalah (Enlightenment) - the literary, cultural, and social movement in the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe.It represents the emergence of modernism and perhaps the budding of some aspects of secularism in Jewish society, following the efforts of the Hebrew and Jewish enlighteners to introduce changes into Jewish culture and Jewish life, and to ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • At the Mind's Limits

    Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities

    by Jean Améry ...
    Translated by Sidney Rosenfeld, Stella P. Rosenfeld ...
    This searing memoir of the author's concentration camp experience "is the autobiography of an extraordinarily acute conscience" ( Newsweek)."Whoever has succumbed to torture can no longer feel at home in the world."At the Mind's Limits is the story of one man's incredible struggle to understand the reality of horror. In five autobiographical essays, Amery describes his survival—mental, moral, and ... Read more

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  • Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate

    A Novel

    by Letty Cottin Pogrebin ...
    This novel "unflinchingly confronts the issue of Jewish continuity in a diverse and changing America" (Anne Roiphe, author and journalist).Feminist icon Letty Cottin Pogrebin's second novel is the story of Zach Levy, the left-leaning son of Holocaust survivors who promises his mother on her deathbed that he will marry within the tribe and raise Jewish children. When he falls for Cleo Scott, an ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Delphi Complete Works of Philo of Alexandria (Illustrated)

    by Philo Judaeus of Alexandria, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 77 - Delphi Ancient Classics
    Philo of Alexandria was a Greek-speaking Jewish philosopher, who is now recognised as the most important representative of Hellenistic Judaism. His writings provide a concise view of the development of Judaism in the Diaspora. His essays seek to synthesise revealed faith and philosophic reason, and Philo is also regarded by Christians as a forerunner of Christian theology. Delphi’s Ancient ... Read more

    $1.99 USD